Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón has promoted a former public defender to his chief of employees who has known as the Los Angeles Police Division “barbarians.”
Tiffiny Blacknell, who has served within the district lawyer’s workplace as a grade 4 prosecutor, particular advisor, and chief of communications, was promoted to be Gascón’s chief of employees on Friday, a number of sources inform Fox Information. Her new position will start Jan. 16.
Through the protests following George Floyd’s dying, Blacknell made a put up on X referring to the Los Angeles Police Department as “barbarians,” and “an occupying army,” and used the “#DefundPolice” hashtag.
In a earlier put up on X, she additionally mentioned that “prison is obsolete,” calling on Individuals to “reimagine America without it.”
LA DA GASCÓN HIRES LAWYER WHO CALLED LAPD ‘BARBARIANS,’ SAID PRISONS SHOULD BE ABOLISHED
Los Angeles District Lawyer George Gascón, left, and Tiffiny Blacknell. (Los Angeles District Lawyer’s Workplace)
“Angela Davis said it years ago. Prisons disappear problems, they don’t solve them,” she wrote. “We’ve been warehousing people for a generation it’s time to free America.”
Blacknell has additionally posted an image of herself carrying a shirt which learn, “the police are trained to kill us.”
She confronted heavy criticism in 2020, after allegedly going behind the backs of the prosecutor and the sufferer’s household in a gang homicide case to supply a “sweetheart” plea deal.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY GEORGE GASCON CREATING RACIAL JUSTICE ACT SECTION
Los Angeles County District Lawyer George Gascón speaks throughout a press convention. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-Information through Getty Photographs/File)
The previous prosecutor additionally posted throughout a sequence of looting in Might 2020, that she was a looter through the 1992 Rodney King riots.
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Los Angeles County District Lawyer George Gascón arrives at a information convention in October to handle the allegation that motels are utilizing staffing companies to rent homeless migrants as alternative staff for strikers at Le Meridien Defina lodge in Santa Monica. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Instances through Getty Photographs/File)
“I was a “looter” in 1992. I was 15. I was furious, sad and scared. I had no way to process my emotions about the murder of Latasha Harlins or the beating of Rodney King. So we went out and we watched our city burn. And when the opportunity arose, we took some s–t,” Blacknell wrote. “So please don’t come on my page complaining about protestors or looters. Don’t text me SHIT about the Whole Foods in West Hollywood and your beloved Santa Monica. My whole community was leveled. Cry me a river! NORDSTROMS WILL BE OK. All this respectability by Black folks and complaining by Westside white liberals is maddening.”
Fox Information Digital reached out to the Los Angeles District Lawyer’s Workplace for remark.
